A BBC spokesperson said: “These were entirely unacceptable comments and we will no longer be working with Craig.”

NAYA, a female wolf, arrived in Belgium in January last year.

Ryanair shares inched higher yesterday despite the airline confirming some of its fleet have been taken out of service to repair cracks in its older planes.

"I’m sorry Mum. My journey abroad hasn’t succeeded. Mum, I love you so much! I’m dying because I can’t breathe..."

Last Tuesday we had the Budget. Next Saturday it's the Special GAA Congress. Michael Moynihan wondered if the former might influence thoughts at the latter.

The latest report from the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) has revealed that 'SHOW DOGS' has been the most complained about film last year.

Larry Ryan: Fashioning narratives out of the week’s big big game

Is the world about to end?

Mary Morrissy Considering ‘memorialisation’ on equal terms with investigation will quite literally pave over the wrongdoing, writes Mary Morrissy.

I see that Wembley is up for sale, writes Michael Moynihan.

Newspaper headlines have helped to create an Islamophobic sentiment in the UK, the new boss at the Daily and Sunday Express has told MPs.

Michael Moynihan offers a few random observations form the Winter Olympics.

"It's almost impossible to have a close relationship between Ireland and Britain, which is necessary for the Irish peace process, and have the divergence that some of the hard Brexiteers want."

British law, and the courts enforcing it, has a sacramental significance to older Tory voters, says Terry Prone

The Prince of Wales should register all his interests to prevent secrecy surrounding his private estate, a royal financial expert has warned.

U2 frontman Bono is among a line-up of high-profile celebrities to be named in the Paradise Papers, it is reported.

Martin Glenn, the Football Association's under-fire chief executive, has revealed that a black woman was deliberately chosen by the governing body to investigate racist allegations surrounding former England Women's manager Mark Sampson.

A RANKING with which this country cannot be pleased is its position in Europol’s list of top 10 money-laundering centres.

What it says in the papers and online.

A former British soldier who went to Syria to fight against the Islamic State terror group has been reportedly charged in Turkey.

Suzanne Harrington on anthrozoology — the relationship between humans and animals.

Nigel Farage has distanced himself from reports that he is a "person of interest" in the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Witnesses said he grabbed Ben Jacobs and slammed him to the ground after being asked about the Republican health care bill.

A candidate in a US congressional election has been charged with misdemeanor assault for grabbing a reporter by the neck and throwing him to the ground.

We’re just over 10 years removed from Ronan O’Gara’s famous swipe at the English Premiership, but the debate on the relative merits of that league and the PRO12 will zoom back into focus on Saturday when the respective league leaders clash in a Champions Cup quarter-final in Dublin.

British Government analysis has indicated that British-made cluster bombs have been used by Saudi Arabia-led forces in the war in Yemen.

Board composition has been a topic of conversation in the commercial world for some time. 

Russia has hit back at the head of MI5's claims that Moscow is adopting an "increasingly aggressive" approach to pursuing its foreign policy goals, including cyber-attacks.

Tusla figures show that payments to Guardians ad Litem in childcare cases rose 7.5% to €8.9m in 2015

You’d have been hard pressed to envisage a day like this when Tipp were trudging their way through Division 3 of the Allianz Football League.

Mainstream politicians have helped fuel a surge in “respectable racism”, former Tory cabinet minister, Sayeeda Hussain Warsi has warned.

Jean-Claude Juncker has been branded an "unelected tinpot figure" after warning there will be no further renegotiations should voters back Brexit.

The Taoiseach has urged the Irish in Britain to come out to vote claiming they may make the difference in the outcome of the Brexit referendum.

Guardian journalist Owen Jones called the shooting "a deliberate attack on LGBT people.”

A new book argues that the knowledge and weaponry developed by Israel in its wars against the Palestinians have allowed it to carve a place in the world’s military-industrial complex, TP O’Mahony is not convinced.

It’s over 60 years since the Dutch accepted the challenges that flooding brought. It’s time our Government did likewise, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.  

Passengers were evacuated from a Dutch airport terminal when a British man was arrested after reportedly shouting bomb threats at a check-in queue.

Sports Direct, Britain’s biggest sportswear retailer, responded to critics of its employment practices yesterday with

Forced to close in London by protesters who hadn’t even seen it, creator Brett Bailey tells Caomhan Keane it is the audience who are on display in Exhibit B

The families of two east London schoolgirls who fled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group have lost hope that the teenagers will return after discovering they married militants.

The head of a white supremacist group, cited by the suspected gunman who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church last week, has given thousands of dollars to several 2016 Republican presidential candidates.